ISIS and the Roadwarrior---Revolution Watch

As we began getting images from the war in the middle east, the one were these Islamic State soldiers rampaged across Syria and Iraq, it seemed to me I had seen this before. There was these ratty-assed vehicles (some not so ratty-assed) all festooned with various weapons and foreboding individuals acting  menacing and hell bent. In the back ground were oil facilities and most interestingly a oil refiner.

Clearly, the ISIS group had an involvement with oil, or fuel, and was out to capture and hold those positions as if they were of great importance, if not imperative to their operations of marauding. All of their actions appeared indiscriminate as they killed every person in their path for dominance in the oily sands.

All of seemed chaotic at one point, but intent and focused on another. They wanted control of the oil facilities and the money they could generate. They wanted to establish a religious, rather fascist caliphate or region of their own making.

I knew I had seen this before. Oh yes, they have been doing versions of this theater before right in the same location, but memory was for another country. I realized it was in Australia. It was after the Apocalypse and they were fighting for the last remnants of the oil industry.It was Road Warrior. It was all the same. The Islamic State had introduced the Road Warrior gambit.

In the end the few survivors of the Road Warrior clash loaded up the last gasoline and headed out in an old school bus to a new life where there would be no gasoline. Wonder if that where this is all headed?